Jumpin’ Jammies
DEAR HOT: I love the wacky, pool-ball PJs in the ads for “House Party 2: The Pajama Jam.” Are they for sale?
DEAR HOT SHOPPER: Those PJs, and most of the pajamas in the film, were designed by former performance artist Nick Graham, who’s known in the fashion world as the bad boy of the underwear biz.
At his company, Joe Boxer, Graham has been known to design 3-D pajamas, T-shirts and boxer shorts, which can be seen in “Undo-vision” through nerdy, 3-D sunglasses.
After he put the 3-D garments on the market, Graham apologized for them: “I was actually designing four-dimensional boxers, but I ran out of time.” Graham regrets his pool-ball PJs are no longer being produced. But he’s got some even goofier designs out now, like those with the boxer-dog-wearing-boxer-shorts print. They’re 100% cotton and retail for about $50 at The Broadway and Fred Segal in Santa Monica.
SHOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE: Downtown Julie Brown, the spandex siren who hosts “Club MTV,” does most of her shopping in New York City, but when she’s got an extra moment in Los Angeles, she heads straight for Melrose Avenue. For the milder entries in her wardrobe.
“In L.A., the fashion isn’t as wild. Everybody’s too scared to be wild in L.A. The shops don’t stock the sort of wild things we can get away with in New York. You get the toned-down versions by the same designers,” she says referring particularly to clothing by Jean Paul Gaultier and Issey Miyake.
Brown claims the New York versions of these clothes are more likely to have the arms cut out and more provocative bust treatments. Nonetheless, she stops in at Tiziana “because they have things from London and they have great shoes for people who are funky like me.”
ETHNIC SHOPPING: The Southwest Museum has invited 30 renowned artisans to participate in a Hopi Indian Marketplace on Nov. 1, 2 and 3 at the museum, 234 Museum Drive, Los Angeles. The artisans will demonstrate traditional and contemporary Hopi craft-making, and many of their wares--toys, jewelry, pottery, baskets, kachina dolls and more--will be for sale. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Nov. 1 and 2; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 3.
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